Blog 17: 4th interview questions

1. How can a deaf elementary student best become grade level literiate?
2. What are some challenges that you face when teaching your elementary students?
3. What kind of visuals do you use and why?
4. What kind of support services does this school or school district provide for the deaf student?
5. When you are teaching, which do you think best benefits the student: being oral or using sign language?
6. What kind of signing do you use in the class? (ASL-American Sign Language, SEE-Sign Exact English, Pidgin sign-a mixed of both)
7. I read in a blog and it said, "SEE was develop in the early 1970's to better enable deaf students to learn better English." (Lineham) Do you agree that SEE does help deaf learn better English? Why or why not?
8. What challenges do you see the child face in the the classroom?
9. Do you think it would be easier for the child if the parents learned sign language?
10. How does ASL grammar and English grammar differ?
11. From your experience what is the best way to teach this grade level and why?
12. Do you think that cochlear implants really help the student to do well academicly?
13. What is the difference between speech and language?
14. What are your thought and feelings on the Rochester method and on cued speech?
15. When you first started teaching, what were the peperations that you had to make?
16. Going back to the first year of teaching, how was your experience?
17. What was one "Ah-huh" moments that you had that you felt you made progress with your students?
18. How can you prepare the students to transition them from elementary to middle school?
19. In your own words, describe what Sign Language is.
20. What is deaf culture?